Quartz Builder

I'm having some strange problems with Quartz Builder. I'm trying to do something dead simple, a looping video in a quartz composition running as a fullscreen application. I did something like this that was a bit more complicated with multiple movie files and it worked.

I have my movie going into a billboard, it runs perfectly fine in QC using the QB template. I set all the things I need, window level, fullscreen, etc... but when I build the application, I just get a black screen. When I hit escape I see a slight afterimage of the movie for a moment. It's as if something is covering the composition... it's very strange.

any obvious things I'm doing wrong? It should be very simple, but it's totally breaking. I checked the contents of the app and the movie file resource got copied there upon building the app.

basic things I have enabled in QC Fullscreen Hide Mouse Window Level: Screensaver (have tried different ones to no effect)

any thoughts or help would be great!

Thanks!

Morgan

I attached the comp with no movie file

Hey everyone. I find this site incredibly helpful so thanks for existing on it. I have a couple of questions re: building standalone applications from Quartz Composer.

I've built a small music player for my band and would like to put it on a usb drive that we sell at our shows. Nothing too involved and the usb drive would have the MP3/WAV files on it too. Just something extra. The music player is working great in quartz composer but I'm stuck with how to export the audio so it's in the application. Can anyone give me some pointers or send me in the direction of some documentation regarding this?

Second, I know you can import quartz compositions into Dashcode for a safari web app. Does this mean we can use some quartz compositions on the web? Is this true and is it just for safari or does Dashcode make it HTML friendly?

Thanks again for this site. It's great.

Hey, Im trying to build out an application that is using a second display. in the old version of quartz builder everything worked without an issue, but with 1.3, the app loads on the primary display only, no matter what display its set to in quartz builder. Can anyone else verify this issue or assist me in what I am doing wrong?

With some experimentation with QB settings and QB Template parameters I was able to make an app switch to fullscreen mode and back. Running SL only, can someone please try this with Lion.

The ZIP contains the patch and App. Hit command + I to show the HUD panel.

cheers, volker

I have been working on a composition that would benefit greatly from state saving. Upon checking out the state saving in the data tools I was excited to say the least but upon building the app using quartz builder the state save no longer functions.

To make certain I just wasn't doing something right, I tried to build the example composition "SimpleDraw.qtz" that comes with the data tools and still no go.

Anyone have any idea for a workaround or wanna chime in as to what I am doing wrong?